US Patent Issued to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on July 14 for "Electrolyte recovery" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,206, issued on July 14, was assigned to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Acton, Australia).

"Electrolyte recovery" was invented by Anand I. Bhatt (Mulgrave, Australia), Thomas Ruther (Highett, Australia) and Yanyan Zhao (Glen Waverley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of recovering a lithium electrolyte salt from a used electrolyte, the method comprising: contacting a used electrolyte comprising a lithium electrolyte salt and electrolyte solvent with a polar aprotic solvent to produce a solution comprising the lithium electrolyte salt, the electrolyte solvent and th...